The Gentoo Linux free software project has a number of public mailing lists, covering a variety of Gentoo Linux-related
subjects. Our mailing lists are powered by a customized version of ezmlm/idx that provides
List-Id: mail headers and [listname] subject prefixes to comply with modern mailing list manager standards
and conventions.

One interacts with ezmlm/idx via email. To subscribe to a list, send an empty email to:

listname-subscribe@gentoo.org

Once subscribed to the list, you can post to it by sending an email to:

listname@gentoo.org

To unsubscribe from a list, send an empty email to:

listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.org

All of our lists also have a corresponding digest list. Digest lists will mail a single email to you every couple of days,
rather than individual emails for each post. Send an empty email to the following addresses to subscribe and unsubscribe from
mailing lists respectively:

You can learn more about the capabilities of ezmlm/idx by reading the Ezmlm/idx User's Manual. You can also learn more about the Gentoo Linux mailing list system by reading the short Gentoo Linux mailing
list FAQ that appears later in this document.

Gentoo Linux Mailing List Mini-FAQI subscribed to a list using my home email address, but I can't post to the list from work. What do I do to fix this?

To reduce spam, all of our lists are configured to only allow posts from official subscriber email addresses. Fortunately,
ezmlm/idx supports a concept known as "aliases," allowing you to register alternate email addresses that can also be used to
post to the list. Here's an example of how this works. Let's say you subscribed to the gentoo-dev list as jim@home.com,
but you'd also like to post to the list using your james@work.com email address. To do this, send a message (as jim@home.com)
to gentoo-dev-allow-subscribe-james=work.com@gentoo.org (note the @ becoming an =,) and then reply to the confirmation email you receive. You should then
be allowed to post to gentoo-dev using both your home and work email addresses.

Where do I set/store my mailing list password?

ezmlm/idx does not use passwords; instead, it uses auto-generated cryptographic cookies for security.

I want to switch from regular delivery to digest delivery. How do I do this?

Unsubscribe from the normal list and then subscribe to the digest list. For list listname, this would be done by
sending empty emails to the following two addresses:

listname-unsubscribe@gentoo.orglistname-digest-subscribe@gentoo.org

How do I use procmail to filter Gentoo Linux mailing list messages?

To filter incoming mail arriving from list listname, use the following procmail recipe: